By: Haley Byrd – weeklystandard.com – March 22, 2018 Lawmakers in the House, racing a government shutdown deadline, voted 256-167 to pass a $1.3-trillion omnibus spending bill on Thursday afternoon, less than 20 hours after its 2,232 pages of legislative text were first released. The spending bill will keep the government funded through the rest of the fiscal year. Included...

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By: Nick Givas – dailycaller.com – March 1, 2018 Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said Thursday on “Fox & Friends” the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court should have jailed lawyers for fraud and encouraged the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate abuses within the federal government. “There is a picture of me whispering in President Trump’s ear...

By: Kate Shellnutt – christianitytoday.com – March 19, 2018 Jerry Falwell Jr.’s political advice falls somewhere between President Donald Trump’s and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s when ranked by evangelicals—and Americans overall—in a new poll of registered voters. According to Morning Consult, endorsements by prominent religious leaders hold more clout with self-identified US evangelicals than those by other celebrities, but still...

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2018 Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable. These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special...

By: John G. Malcolm & Amy Swearer – dailysignal.com – March 16, 2018 In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to resolve, it is...

By: Rachel Alexander – stream.org – March 13, 2018 The French do it every year. Liberals love France. Have you ever met a liberal who didn’t love wine, smelly soft cheese, existentialist philosophy? Who didn’t feel weepy about the French Revolution? Who didn’t love singing La Marseillaise? So why aren’t liberals cheering when Donald Trump wants to do what the...

By: Al Perrotta – stream.org – March 18, 2018 When asked by a reporter to comment on angry insults by a competitor, a wise old boss of mine simply said, “When you fire into a bush and you hear a scream you know you’ve hit something.” Have you heard the screaming of assorted Obama administration figures on the firing of...

By: Morgan Chalfant – thehill.com – March 18, 2018 Trump administration officials on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging a multi-year cyberattack campaign against the energy grid and other elements of critical infrastructure in the United States. The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI coincided with the administration’s decision to unveil new sanctions on Russia...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – March 14, 2018 On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Lesley Stahl asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about the “institutional racism” in school discipline. It was like neither of them had ever heard of Nikolas Cruz. The Parkland, Florida, school shooter is our most recent case study of what happens when liberals start babbling about...